More of the Better

A quick, critical look at U.S. education (some $2,000,000,000 a year) was taken in FORTUNE's July issue. In "Ferment in Education" FORTUNE's editors shared the widespread feeling that even the best U.S. schooling has limited educational value, but plumped strongly for more of it (at Federal expense, if need be), arid for a better kind.

Says FORTUNE: ". . . by and large, the schools have done too little because they have had too few funds. . . . The schools are constantly beset by pressure groups who want to see the tax rate lowered. . . .

"The consequences of underfinanced education are serious . . . factory workers, of whom an expensive education is not required . . . are making more than $500 more [than teachers]. . . .

"Our country is not going to be any better than our school system. . . . We cannot afford an ill-educated electorate . . . the movies, the radio, the press, and the advertisements . . . play up and down on the child's nerves . . . apply to him that most insidious of regimentations, mass anesthesia. Against this deadly passivity, our schools are the only bulwark."

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